Tag: Federal funding
Beyond Big Bird: What is public media’s value today?
When every year seems to bring a new round of threats to public media funding, it’s clear that public media isn’t doing ...Key GOP lawmaker to CPB: Pubcasting needs a new pitch on Capitol Hill
House Republican Don Young, the 39-year veteran representative from Alaska’s at-large district and a longtime backer of public broadcasting, told the Corporation ...CPB report to Capitol Hill countering “continued and pervasive” opposition to federal funding
CPB’s financial analysis on alternative funding sources for public broadcasting, prepared by consultants at Booz & Co. and delivered to Congress in ...APTS combats latest bids to defund CPB
Two of pubcasting’s chief critics on Capitol Hill have revived their bids to end CPB funding. Republican lawmakers Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) ...NEA allotted this year’s media aid ‘to present art in new and . . . ...
Soon, listeners will hear celebrities read James Joyce’s entire masterpiece Ulysses via satellite and Internet radio; a New York City theater will use ...At APTS summit, public TV remembers which way ‘up’ is
“What a difference a year makes,” Patrick Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, told the crowd at the group’s ...NPR rooted in stations that still require federal dollars
When Gary Knell officially started work this month as NPR’s president, he probably found no shortage of ideas about what he should ...APTS operating without dues from 1/4 of stations
A drop in dues-paying members over the last three years has diminished the resources of the Association of Public Television Stations at ...NPR back as a House target: Draft bill seeks ban on aid
The draft for the House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal year 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill, introduced Sept. 29 ...CPB survives, but not the facilities program
This year, St. Patrick’s Day was the deadline for pubcasters to ask Uncle Sam for help replacing their ancient, failing transmitters, or ...House bill saves no money but fights ‘liberal’ bogeyman
After a nearly two-hour battle pitting fiscal conservatism against the value of publicly funded media, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a ...Economic crisis may force cuts in aid to pubcasting
“At this point, any and all funding for public broadcasting is at risk,” the Association for Public Television Stations said.House vote would axe CPB in 2013
Last time, in 2005, the emissary to Congress was Clifford the Big Red Dog. This time, it’s an aardvark named Arthur. Last ...‘170 Million Americans’ drive begins to defend federal aid
The big audience statistic reveals for the first time a comprehensive estimate of public media users across all platforms.Knives sharpened for renewed assault on CPB
Bills to defund public broadcasting, or at least any radio network that fired Juan Williams, are beginning to seem like a real ...
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